Writing isn’t easy, and Obama seems to realize that. That’s why the Becoming: A Guided Journal for Discovering Your Voice journal is is filled with more than 150 questions and quotes that prompt the user to write about their lives, both their past, their present, and what they hope to do in the future.

Some sample questions?

“I had nothing or I had everything. It depends on which way you want to tell it. Where we come from has such a strong effect on the person we are. Describe the neighborhood you grew up in. What was special about it? What was challenging? How did it shape who you are today?”

“I’ve learned that it’s harder to hate up close. Describe a recent conversation you had with someone who did not share your history or perspective. How did you navigate the conversation?”

The book also focuses on goal setting, identifying challenges facing the reader/writer, and exploring one’s motivations.

As Obama says in the introduction to the journal. “I hope you’ll use this journal to write down your experiences, thoughts, and feelings, in all their imperfections, and without judgment…We don’t have to remember everything. But everything we remember has value.”

Apparently, Obama herself used to journal. She says that when she was in her 20s, starting to date Barack Obama and trying to decide on her desired career path, she journaled to help herself “navigate all the transitions” she was experiencing at the time, though it wasn’t until she started writing Becoming that she picked up the pen again, realizing how much she’d missed journaling.

Becoming: A Guided Journal for Discovering Your Voice was released today, November 19. It would make a great holiday gift for fans of Obama’s memoir, and for fans of guided journals in general.

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